collapsed in 2008 and when the economy collapsed in 2008 revenues collapsed with it. >> every little bit helps, steve. >> but that is -- that is the reason why we have major defi t deficits right now. not because this bill is 50 when it should be 47 billion. nothing to do with it. >> i also love and not saying that you made this argument but other republicans have made the argument that, you know, when you're talking about raising taxes on the wealthy, oh, not very much. but when you're talking about cutting earmarks, suddenly, it's every little bit helps but i think this process overall needs reform and an interesting potential model is something that senators mark warner, john kerry and kay bailey hutchison suggested which is an infrastructure investment bank where the federal government seeds that bank with money and districts and states submit requests, basically these are the project that is we need loans for. and they invision it as a bank to deal with larger scale projects but i don't see why it couldn't work for smaller scale projects because it's been done through the earmar